Daily Archives: January 5, 2018

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has declared that there is an orchestrated plot to create the impression that the state is unsafe through the promotion of targeted cult killings.

This is as the Federal Government called for partnership between it and the Rivers State Government to tackle security challenges in the state.

Speaking during a visit of the Minister of Interior, Lt General Abdulrahman Danbazzau, to the Government House Port Harcourt on Friday, Governor Wike said that the security agencies in the state know the cult kingpins terrorising flashpoints in the state.

He said: “The Security agencies have the profiles of all cult kingpins in different parts of the state and they know their locations.

“There is no wisdom in the politicization of security. Insecurity can affect anybody. You can never know the next victim of insecurity “.

He urged the security agencies and the Federal Government to deploy personnel to cult flashpoints in the state to forestall repeated attacks by cultists. Continue reading

The Police in Oyo State has arrested 18 suspected hoodlums for alleged involvement in bloody cult clashes in some densely populated areas of Ibadan.

The Commissioner of Police, Mr Abiodun Odude warned the warring groups that have been unleashing terrors in some parts of the Oyo State capital to desist from such activities and that if otherwise, they will be made to face the full wrath of the law.

Hoodlums numbering over 100 from Foko and Itamaya area of Ibadan had on Tuesday and Wednesday, January 2 and 3 launched an attack they called ‘Operation No Mercy’ against their rival at Oke-Ado in Ibadan. Continue reading

Three days ago, Mr Femi Adesina, Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity was conferred with the traditional title of Nwanne Di Na Mba (A brother in another land) of Mmaku Kingdom, Enugu State.

Femi Adesina receives traditional title

Adesina received the chieftaincy title during the 1st Grand Ofala festival of Igwe Cyprain Nevobasi, Igwe Omeluenyi 1 of Agunnese, Ezeani 111 of Nmaku Kingdom in Enugu. Continue reading

How the Chibok girl, Salomi Pogu, and 2,000 others including women and children were rescued following military operations around Gwoza and Sambisa general area of Borno state.

The Theatre Commander of the Operation Lafiya Dole, Major General Rogers Nicholas, noted that Pogu is the 107th Chibok school girl to be rescued nearly four years after abduction.

Addressing journalists on Thursday, he explained that Operations are going on across the Sambisa General area and as a result, one of the abducted Chibok girls was rescued alongside one other girl who has a baby. Continue reading

A former grassroots footballer, one who rose from the slums and war ravaged Liberia of the 90s to become best player in the world in 2005, has just become president of Liberia.

George Opong Weah, the former Arsenal star defeated vice President Joseph Boakai in the run off presidential election recently held in that country and will now succeed current President Ellen Sirleaf.

The National Elections Commission said that with 98.1% of ballots counted, Mr Weah had won 61.5% of the vote.

Opponent Joseph Boakai was far behind with 38.5%.

For young boys in the grassroots football level, there’s a huge lesson to learn in the George Weah’s story. Here’s a man who lacked basic education, but had raw football skills. A man whose upbringing was tainted by a war that consumed many friends and family members and one which could dampen the highest of spirits and turn the most innocent of souls into a revengeful murderous monster.

But Weah had finer dreams. He wanted greatness in better ways than carrying a gun. For him, what separated him and the best football stars in the world were simply skills, mental and physical skills that he could learn. And he set apart to make the necessary sacrifices to become great.

A retired basketball player, now a World renowned psychologist John Amaechi in one of his motivational videos on YouTube urged aspiring basketball stars to be ready to pay the FEE to greatness if they ever really desired to be great. By the FEE, Amaechi meant Focus, Effort and Execution.

The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr Ibe Kachikwu, says the Federal Government is working assiduously to revamp the country’s refineries to address the problems of lingering fuel crisis.

Kachikwu said this on Thursday in Abuja during a one-day public hearing of the National Assembly Joint Committees on Petroleum (Downstream), investigating the causes of recent fuel scarcity recorded across the country in December 2017. Continue reading

The Rivers State Executive Council has approved the 2018 Budget for presentation to the State House of Assembly.

Addressing journalists after the first State Executive Council meeting for 2018 on Wednesday, State Commissioner for Information and Communication, Emma Okah said that the council extensively discussed the drafts of the 2018 Budget from all the Ministries, Departments and Agencies.

He said that modalities have been concluded for the formal presentation by Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike on the floor of the Assembly.

Speaking further, he said that council frowned at the situation where some communities fail to protect public infrastructure. Continue reading

National leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Ahmed Bolaji Tinubu, has told President Muhammadu Buhari that the condition for supporting him (Buhari) ahead 2019 general elections would be renegotiated, ThisDay reports.

The paper reports that Tinubu told Buhari that him and his loyalists in the South-west were ready to back Buhari’s re-election bid, but that the condition for their support would be different this time around. Continue reading